Razor-strop



(No Model.)

J. R. TORREY.

RAZOR s131101. No. 267,950. Patented Nov. Z1, 1882.

N. PETERS Phnwumognpher;Washiugmn, D, C.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH R. TORREY, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

RAZOR-STROP. t.

SPECIFICATION forming part of -Letters Patent No. 267,950, dated November 21, 1882,

` Application filed May 15,1882. (No model.)

ble RazorStrops; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact "description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which- Figure l represents a razor-strop in perspective embracing my aforesaid improvements. Fig. 2 represents a modification which will be hereinafter more fully explained. Fig. 3 represents a transverse or cross section of the strop shown in Fig. l. Fig. etrepresents a transverse or cross section of the strop shown in Fig. 2; and Fig. 5 represents another modification in cross-section, which will be hereinafter more full y described. The last three gures are upon an enlarged scale. My invention consist-s in the combination of a hollow case or box having hard honingsurfaces upon one or more sides of the same with an ordinary strop, which may be inserted and conta-ined within said case, as will behereinafter more fully explained.

To enable those skilled in the art to which my invention belongs to make and use the same, Iwill proceed to describe it more in detai In the drawings, A represents a long hollow casing or box,which may be made of wood, pasteboard,orsimilar stit'tmaterial. Said casing may be made in a square form, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, so as to obtain four hard honing-surfaces, it' desired; orit may be made datshaped, as shown in the other figures, or in any other suitable form. Theoutersides, B,ot'cas. ing vA are covered with emery or other similar hard cutting material D,which may be secured directly to the wood or other material ot' which the case is made., or to leather fastened to said casing. The different sides B are graded from a coarse to a tine honing-surface, as indicated by the figures upon the strops shown in the drawings. I

In practice the inner strop, E, lwhich is inserted and contained within the outer casin g, A, is provided Witheither softcushioned strop ping-surfaces or With-elastic belt stroppngsurfaces upon which to nish the edge of the razor after having been honed upon the different grades ot' hard surfaces B ot' casing A.

As will be seen, eight different grades of honing and stropping surfaces may be obtained by the use of afoursided case, A, as shown in Fig. 1, by making the inner strop with four stropping-surfaces, and any desired number less than eight may be obtained by changing the form of the inner strop and its casing A. In this instance the inner strop is represented in all but Fig. 5 as being provided with elastic belt strops F upon two sides, which are tightened up by means of a tightening deviceopen ated by turning the handle F. of the strop. Said tightening device being of old and wellt-he same is here necessary.

tic surfaces, as before described, or soft cushioned 'surfaces F3, as shown in Fig. 5.

The end `Gf ot' casing A may be closed up and both ends finished in any suitable and proper manner, and said casing provided with a suitable casing to contain the usual dressing77 material used upon a strop.

razor-strop in two parts, with one of said parts contained within thcother, and therefore make 11o claim broadly to the same.

'What I do claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-A The combination of a casing or box, A, having one or more hard honing-surfaces, B, with removable stropping part E, provided with suitable hard or elastic stropping or honing surfaces, and contained within said casing or box A, substantially as shown and described.

JOSEPH R. TORREY. Witnesses:

WALTER B. NoUEsE, ALBERT A. BARKER.

known construction, no further description ot' 1f preferred, the strop E may have hard stropping or honing surfaces F2, instead of elas- I am aware that it is not new to make a` 

